![]() ![]() There he pitifully and miserably clung on for a long time before sliding, we hope, into political oblivion. Captain Boris Johnson was thrown off the Brits gangway. This had made them the economic engine of European growth.Īs for His Majesty King Charles’ sinking ship, HMS Great Britain. German inflation is now a double digit, 70-year high, driven primarily by the loss of cheap Russian gas that fuelled Germany’s long-run industrial expansion. Many top companies are fleeing to America and China. The German economy is tethering at a point of collapse. Russia has weathered the storm of the sanctions imposed by the West, but the boomerang effect is now destroying the Western European economies. Now, we have the world at the brink of a major economic collapse. In his 1961 farewell address, he left a dire warning – now ignored – to the American nation of the potential abuse of power by these powerful militaristic forces. It was these war-profiteering corporations, and their allies in government, Eisenhower called ‘the Military-Industrial-Complex (MIC)’. All this as a part of the militarism, hubris, and hegemonic wars of conquest.ĭwight Eisenhower saw the dangers of America’s abuse of military power under the ‘get rich’ mentality of the corporations that profit from wars. Iraq’s and Libya’s wealth was seized and plundered, too. On leaving after 20 years, America spitefully seized over US$7.5 billion of Afghani money that they refuse to give back. ![]() Well, not even the dirt-poor Afghanistan was spared. One would have thought that President Joe Biden, as a lawyer, ought to know that it is illegal under the Second Geneva Convention of 1949 to grab by military might, and exploit, another nation’s resources.Īnd yet, American troops are still there, under the Biden administration, plundering over US$90 billion from illegal oil sales.Īll these are sheer acts of hubris arrogance backed up by imperialist military might. And we should have done the same in Iraq.” “We are keeping the oil in Syria,” Donald Trump said, “that’s why our troops are there. In the case of Syria, America appropriated the oil lands as they did too in Iraq, by using the Iraqi Kurds as a proxy army. Guantanamo Bay in Cuba has been virtually annexed. Syria, like Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, or the oil-rich Haitian island, Navassa, has been permanent stops in America’s expansionist quest.Īmerica annexed oil-rich Navassa from Haiti in 1857. The 1983 invasion of Grenada the 1989 Panama invasion attempts to overthrow the governments of Cuba, Venezuela, Jamaica, and Nicaragua, among others, are just bloody milestones in the untrammelled march of the world imperialist masters. The intervening years saw Latin America, Asia and Africa falling prey to a global imperialist expansionism and the plundering of weaker nations’ wealth, either by coup d’état or outright military invasion. When American troops invaded Haiti in 1929, they went straight for the central bank and plundered it. If we go back into time, we see a pattern and practice that fully explains the nature and true essence of what imperialism is and how it operates. The risk of a nuclear war is very close, threatening the existence of the whole humanity, but it does not appear to matter to the world’s imperialist overlords, who just keep pushing and pushing. This certainly was not what Ukraine had in mind when they became a proxy in NATO’s eastward expansion towards Russia’s border, against the advice of people likes Dr Henry Kissinger, among others. Sign up for The Gleaner’s morning and evening newsletters. ![]()
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